picaro
Americannoun
plural
picarosEtymology
Origin of picaro
First recorded in 1615–25, picaro is from the Spanish word pícaro rogue
Example Sentences
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His friend and foil is Rich Bone, a handsome and once successful corporate executive who sees life's flaws so clearly that he has retreated to become a sort of passive picaro.
From Time Magazine Archive
Initially it seemed to be the first-person adventures of an intellectual picaro charting his disenchantment with Los Angeles, the Esalen Institute, M.I.T., think tanks and other outposts of American culture.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nares quotes several instances of "picaro" and "picaroon" from our early writers.
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)
With Panurge, we are distracted from the picaro by all the philosophic and fantastic digressions of an extensive tale in which he is not the principal hero.
From The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare by Jusserand, J. J.
The picaro Guzman wore one; and as montero is the Spanish word for huntsman, Head may have obtained the word from that special scamp, Guzman, whose life was published in 1633.
From Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) by Earle, Alice Morse
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